pkgsrc/databases/redis/DESCR

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Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the
dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached,
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but also lists, sets, and ordered sets. All these data types can be manipulated
with atomic operations to push/pop elements, add/remove elements, perform
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server side union, intersection, and difference between sets, and so forth.
Redis also supports different kinds of sorting.